Step 4 - Pointing Out Instructions
This is step 4 of a guide to take a meditator to a taste of awakening/enlightenment based on Daniel P Brown's 3 map system. Through these steps we'll move into deeper levels of awareness. In step 1 we moved from thought into awareness. In step 2 we shifted into awareness doing the meditation. In step 3 we'll recognize that that awareness is timeless. This is the final step, step 4 in which the true nature of your awareness is pointed out. This step is generally reserved for live situations with a teacher, but Dan gave a small version of it in his talk at 1:38:42 of the Sacred Sundays with Dr. Daniel Brown, Ph.D. video. Below is the transcript of that, you can do it with him narrating by clicking the video link.|
Okay just listen and follow along let the mind folow along what's being pointed out
open your eyes look into the surrounding empty space that saturates everything keep looking into that empty space with your eyes open mix your awareness into the empty space and the empty space into your awareness so it's one field of empty awareness space, saturating everything, everywhere now keep looking at that field of empty awareness space and come to see that there's something about that field or the point of observation in the field that's absolutely timeless something about the field that doesn't come and go in time that's changeless timeless identify the changeless timeless aspect of that field that's beyond things coming and going in time the events in the field will still come in going time but the field itself is changeless and timeless directly experience that always right here changeless timeless awareness next come to see that that empty awareness space extends in all directions panoramically so it's limitless and when you try and take that vast scope of limitless awareness some of you may notice that the ordinary mind and imposes edges or boundaries on that space and if you notice edges of boundaries anywhere take your awareness and pour the awareness right into those edges and boundaries like pouring awareness into awareness until all those edges and boundaries disappear like mist dissolving into the atmosphere until the scope gets more vast and if you extend your awareness even further out if there are other edges and boundaries that the ordinary mind is imposing open into them as basic space and keep doing that until there are no edges or boundaries until you get a taste of the limitlessness of this field of empty awareness space timeless changeless on the one hand boundless and limitless on the other hand and come to see that your basis of operation where you're coming from is operating out of that field of ocean like changeless boundless awareness or being that field don't visualize an ocean it's just a metaphor for awareness the scope of the awareness ocean lilike changeless boundless awareness always right here and then ease up and let the ordinary content of the mind recur like waves arising in an ocean the difference is where you're looking from you're looking for being that ocean like awareness like an ocean of changeless boundless awareness viewing its own waves relax the mind enough to let the content come up like waves arising in an ocean like an ocean of changeless boundless awareness viewing its own waves don't hold the mind too tight an ocean can't view its own waves if there are no waves ease up and let the content to recur like waves arising an ocean viewed from the vantage point of ocean like awareness itself and whatever arises will arise within that vast spaciousness with no grab whatsoever it just arises in that space that vast limitless spaciousness and disappears back into the spaciousness right here is your first taste of what's called the path of spacious freedom like an ocean viewing its own waves take the view that whatever rises whatever the content is, no matter how varied it is it's like a wave it's all just empty constructions of mind it's all lively awareness like an ocean viewing its own waves and whatever arises is another momentary expression of emptiness liveliness the whole show is awareness expressing itself to itself knowing itself through its own expressions like an ocean viewing its own waves and then you can bring it to a close that's a pointing out instruction from Sri Singha who was Padmasambhava's meditation teacher I hoped that it would give you a taste of the pointing out instructions these are things that you wouldn't think of in a million years but once you point it out it's obvious you can open up the whole world of ocean light change this boundless awareness just by the clarity of the instructions that's what I was trying to say earlier. |